COMD 500 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Exhalation, Traumatic Brain Injury, Autism Spectrum
30 May 2017
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What is communication: it is the process of sharing information between two or more persons. An exchange of ideas between sender and receiver. How it interacts with culture: we each are a part of language and cultural communities that shape us, example: deaf community. Purposes: to request, to reject, and to comment. Modalities: the manner in which information is transmitted and received: speech, sign, written, gesture, facial expression, and drawing. Grice"s maxims: principles of effective communication, quantity, quality, relevance, and manner. Each maxim may differ by culture or as a result of a communication disorder. Describes the cognitive process by which we formulate ideas and thoughts. Socially shared code that uses a conventional system of arbitrary symbols to represent ideas about the world that are meaningful to others. Universality, species specificity, productivity (infinite combinations), and rate of acquisition. 5 years: thousands of words and complex sentences.
